Category: South Dakota
Devil’s Gulch
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/03/28Mar24-Devils-Gulch.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)After a failed bank robbery attempt in Northfield, Minnesota, the James gang headed west toward the Dakota Territory. Near what…
The Inventor of the Flying Machine
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/24Jan23-Elkton-Inventor-Henry-Heitz.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably haven’t heard of Henry Heitz. However, the folks in Elkton, South Dakota know that he invented a flying…
The Circus Comes to Town
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/23Jan23-Elkton-Elephant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The people of Elkton, South Dakota were excited that the circus was in town. But when bad weather forced its…
A Canceled Circus with a Special Performance
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/01/22Jan23-Elkton-Elephant-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about everyone loves the circus, so people in Elkton, South Dakota were disappointed when bad weather forced the cancellation…
Diamon D Saddle Shop – Ft. Pierre
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/17Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Dave Dahl turns on the cowboy channel to watch a rodeo, there’s a good chance he’s going to see…
Do you know Dave Dahl? Lots of Cowboys Do.
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/14Apr23-Dave-Dahl-Diamon-D-Saddle-Shop-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a business begins without you realizing you were beginning a business. That is perhaps the case for Dave Dahl. …
Must You Change with the Times?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/13Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Successful businesses have to change with the times. Or do they? In some ways, this store is doing the same…
The Dakota Emporium
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/12Apr23-Dakota-Emporium-Trading-Post-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small downtown area of Ft. Pierre, South Dakota and you’ll find a place called the…
Al’s Great Pies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/25Jan23-Als-Oasis-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’ve driven across interstate 90 in South Dakota you know you’ll see plenty of signs for Wall Drug, an…
Al’s Oasis
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/01/24Jan23-Als-Oasis-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)An oasis is often thought to be a lush, fertile spot in the middle of a desert. The oasis I’ll…
Taking Advantage of the Mountain Time Zone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/26Sep22-Fort-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)For communities near a time zone, it can sometimes be confusing which time one is using when hosting an event. …
Historic Ties to Ft. Pierre, South Dakota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/09/23Sep22-Ft-Pierre-Karl-Fisher-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Take a walk around the small historic district in Ft. Pierre, SD and you’ll find some buildings with quite a…
KORN Radio Celebrates 75 Years
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/06Jul22-KORN-Radio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You know your station has hit the big time when it’s call letters are used for a fictional radio station…
Corny Call Letters
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2022/06/05Jul22-KORN-Radio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The radio business has lots of four-letter words. The words I’m talking about are the four call letters by which…
Two Different Burial Spot Claims
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/07/27Jul20-Sitting-Bull.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He is one of the greatest Indian chiefs ever to lead his tribes in peace and battle. Ironically, two different…
Where the Buffalo Roam
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/26Jun20-Custer-State-Park-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a place wnere the buffalo roam and herds of people come to watch them. I’ll take you to a…
A Road to Make You Drive Slowly
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/25Jun20-Custer-State-Park-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The purpose of a new road is usually to get people from one point to another more quickly and safely. …
South Dakota’s First State Park
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/24Jun20-Custer-State-Park-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is South Dakota’s first state park but when it was established over a century ago one man was worried…
A Museum with Big Artifacts
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/16Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a museum with some of the biggest artifacts you’ll find and you can walk right up to just about…
Higher and Faster than a Plane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/06/15Jun20-South-Dakota-Air-Space-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you think of an Air Force base you of course think of air planes. But at this base, the…
